Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this … knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire … common knowledge. But if efficient production requires diverse knowledge, one group member should become manager, acquire …

accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3 … arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence … the same society had higher similarity in patenting, suggesting that social networks facilitated spatial knowledge …

markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA …' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge …

in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in … knowledge work in a multitasking model, and estimates their causal effort and selection effects in knowledge creation by …. The quantity effort response is strongest for low productivity academics, who do not produce high quality work. High …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. We study how … productivity of surviving workers. Moreover, it is specifically the firing of peers with whom workers had social connections …